It was like what I would imagine getting into a time machine and traveling back forty or sixty years would be like. You can watch this video simply by Googling....Mark Esper Interviews Joseph Wu.....or you can add former defense secretary before Mark Esper.....or Taiwanese Foreign Minister before Joseph Wu.....or throw in McCain Institute. I think I've made it easy enough.
So maybe you are a college student....busy with studies yes....and maybe not even a political science or history major.....take the time to listen to this interview....for it is the world in which you live.This is almost an hour long interview but it will seem to go fast....in this day and age when you might want to scream listening to government leaders or politicians because you know that they are not opening up....or you know that politics is driving their comments....or you can't listen to this guy or gal who is where they are only because some political strategist thought that they have some shiny lure to attract a voting populace that will always snatch up the bait.
Well first of all since Mark Esper was directing the conversation one could count on it being to the point and without politics.....but this Taiwanese foreign Minister Joseph Wu not only was on top of every issue discussed....but somehow answered every question.....fudging nowhere....sidetracking nothing....and doing all this with an extreme clarity.
This issue of Taiwan and China will have its day.....so get a leg up on all of this and put the hour in to hear this extraordinary....more than a primer on Taiwan....what in effect is more valuable than any seminar that I can remember sitting in on....and most political science classes. Do I sound impressed? Watch it and make up your own mind.
I'll only add this one anecdote. Mark Esper asked Joseph Wu in what time span he thought that China might attack Taiwan. The answer was the same one that I have mentioned a few times in these posts....as Wu said that they do not think in terms of years....but instead watch for serious internal disruptions within China....such as the collapse of their economy might cause....for then China would be most likely to act.
OK.....there's the geopolitics.....you don't think I'm going to let you off without comments on the gospel of Jesus Christ do you? I'm going to do it this way....if you do listen to this interview and all of a sudden believe that you have a handle on what is going on with China and Taiwan....well.....and I have encouraged readers here on more than a few occasions....Google up and listen to some sermons from men of the past.....or men who preach like men of the past....and you will feel the same sense of....Eureka! So that's what it's all about!!! Try John Piper or Charles Spurgeon or J. C, Ryle.....for that is but three of whom you cannot miss. There are plenty of others but get grounded here....and you will be able to spot them easier.
